Posts made by Ganymede

@tinuviel

Basil Poledouris.

@carma said in What is a MU*?:

I find myself agreeing with half of the posts you make on MSB, Derp, and the other half just make me retch to hear the equivalent of, "Hey now pard'ner, we don't have to spend any time letting blind people play our games."

That does not mean that what Derp is saying is incorrect, though. We don't have an obligation to consider certain disabilities when making a game. I agree that designing for disability is a process that should be woven into the design process. Whether that should be an obligation we all ascribe to is another question.

For instance, we have heard others talk in another thread about how having a blinking notification is helpful to know that activity is occurring elsewhere. But what if a player may be triggered by such blinking into a mental fugue? Does that mean a portal designer has an obligation to use a sound instead?

So, if a game does not have support for the blind, I am reluctant to make a value judgment as to the game designer. And I think that is what Derp is getting at.

@arkandel said in What is a MU*?:

What is a feature or limitation you add to it (or what do you take away from it) so that it is no longer a MU*?

Seriously, I don't think this is a good place to start since it presumes universally-accepted attributes of a MU*.

@ghost said in Online friends:

The majority will not want you to have access to their home, spouses, or children.

To be fair, I don't want many of the people I know to have access to my home, spouse, or children, including people I consider my friends.

We all get to set our own boundaries.

@faraday said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

Ares is successful because it innovates without alienating its core playerbase. That doesn't change the fact that backwards compatibility comes with a cost.

I think you underestimate how wonderful Ares is. Your product is excellent, but backwards compatibility is an added bonus, not, in my opinion, a requirement.

I didn't want to get an iPhone7, but my wants and needs, which require me to have the ability to access cell phone towers, compelled me to get one.

I may want to cling to my Potato, but if I can't use it to get to a game I want to play on, I will get to the game one way or another. And I haven't heard anyone yet say that they would refuse to go to a game that had a web portal only.

That's pretty much how I access Arx.

This post relates to accidental or inadvertent posting of others' PI.

We moderators are cognizant that accidents occur, we are also of the opinion that many accidents are preventable. That said, users are responsible for what they post. If you cut-and-paste a post from elsewhere that contains PI, you are responsible for the contents of that post. And that means that if it contains PI, you will be removed for having violated this rule unless you take steps immediately to address the issue.

More or less, if any of the moderators have to step in to remove PI from the board before a user modifies a post to exclude it, a violation has occurred, regardless of knowledge.

Be careful what you post from elsewhere and be careful when using names. We look at these things on a case-by-case basis, along with what we surmise to be the intent of a post.

And, as always, violations of this rule force me to actually do work, and making me work makes me grumpy.

Of all the rules we have we take the dissemination of RL information, knowingly or unknowingly, very seriously and severely. This user was found to have published someone else's RL name.

So, they have been banned.

If you have questions, feel free to PM the mods. A subsequent post about this decision will follow.

@faraday said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

The need to support old-school MU clients is a tremendous limitation on new platforms and individual games.

You don't need to do anything.

@derp said in Online friends:

Why don't you buy me stuff?

You don't ask.

And you know why.

@wizz said in Online friends:

What factors make y'all decide to move further? Is it solely just time and trust?

I have never met anyone I MUSHed with in person for over twenty years.

It’s about limits for me.

Mind, I buy people shit all the day, so —

@kestrel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

As a community, are we emotionally attached to old-school technology?

That would explain why I am a moderator here.

Comfortable and nostalgic?

That would contradict why I am a moderator here.

Or is there something that this experience provides that more modern approaches can't?

Not really.

@rightmeow said in Online friends:

Also @Ganymede we are totally friends. You don't get a say (j/k). We were friends from the first cat pic.

@arkandel said in Online friends:

Are online friends real friends? Where do you draw the line, if you do?

Of course they are.

I mean, I think they are.

If I had them.

@greenflashlight

Do you have a cat?

Cats are assholes.

@ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Just be sure to send back the bourbon that's going to arrive on your doorstep, since you don't need it now.

After today, this is all I want to do:

Bourbon will help.

@il-volpe said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

This challenges my suspension-of-disbelief a lot more than a PC acting the clown, but unlike fishmalks and superfriends, it's not a WoD-player-virtue to hate it.

The last time I played a "fish-malk" he bluffed his way into securing the Seneschal's seat.

I do miss him.

I will take a dozen fish-malks over one grim-darque supremacist.

@juniper said in Antagonistic PCs - how to handle them:

... but having respect for each other's moments of revelation.

As I said, once more, players ruin a perfectly good game.

@juniper

@aria

You know, a lot of ERISA violations can result in awards of attorney’s fees, so many attorneys take such cases on contingent upon such awards or on a contingency fee. So you could look one up, and work it out.

Worth a shot.

@aria